The Forgiven: A Novel by Lawrence Osborne. Life changing events sometimes need forgiveness. If you experience a life-changing event, do you need to be forgiven? Are you responsible? Osborne gives such a full and rich description of an opulent 3-day weekend party in Morocco, you can feel the heat. You’re irritated by the sand. He […]
Tagged forgiven, lawrence osborne, reviewWalks With Men by Ann Beattie. Novella. Interesting, but some parts seem undeveloped which is sometimes characteristic of a novella. That is understandable, but, still I felt like I was left in a situation that needed more explanation in  order for me to make sense of it.
Tagged ann beattie, review, walks with menSeveral years ago we saw a spectacular display of blooming tree  peonies at Brooklyn Botanic Gardens. The next year we bought one tree peony for our garden in the rear of the house and the following year bought another. They don’t bloom a profusely as the plants a Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, but each bloom is wonderful.
Tagged tree peony, view du jourThe Smitten Kitchen Cookbook by Deb Perelman contains some excellent recipes. No shortcuts on ingredients but an emphasis on quality. Two recipes we’ve tried are Almond Date Breakfast Bars and Butternut Squash and Caramelized Onion Galette. The latter includes a great recipe for the crust.
Tagged cookbook, perelmanThe Money Kill by Katia Leif. A good mystery with some expected and very unexpected turns. Starts out in Brooklyn in neighborhoods we’ve visited. An enjoyable read.
Tagged Leif, money killJam It, Pickle It, Cure It: And Other Cooking Projects by Karen Solomon.  Really useful book for preserving foods.
Tagged cure, jam, pickle, preservingI came across this article about writing software for Web scraping using python Easy Web Scraping with Python – miguelgrinberg.com – “A little over a year ago I wrote an article on web scraping using Node.js. Today I’m revisiting the topic, but this time I’m going to use Python, so that the techniques offered by […]
Tagged programming, python, scraping, tools, tutorial, webA drone party at Death By Audio Death by Audio throwing free 24-hour drone marathon this weekend in back loft w/ Will Sheff, Excepter, Greg Fox, more – “Musicians involved in the droning include Will Sheff, Greg Fox, Excepter, Oliver Ackerman (A Place to Bury Strangers), Travis Johnson (Grooms), and lots more. The event is […]
Tagged A Place to Bury Strangers, death by audioI came across this excellent site browsing for ukulele chords to a song. It is in French and seems to have a great collection of items. partitions et songbooks pour ukulélé GCEA – Seems to be a very complete collection of ukulele songs, chords, lyrics, and all sorts of info about the ukulele. In French […]
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Obituary average age. October 30, 2014: 76.92
The average age of those listed in the thirteen obituaries in the October 30, 2014 Free Lance-Star was 76.92. The median was 81.5 with a sample standard deviation of 16.43. The ages ranged from 28 to 94. This is the eleventh day I’ve been collecting this data. The mean of  obituary average ages using {77.375,64,74.143, 62.5, 55,66.8333, 74.11,71.27,68.82, 76.92} at Wolfram alpha is […]
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